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This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in creating and institutionalizing social hierarchies. This book focuses specifically on an enigmatic type of public, monumental sculpture known as the potbelly that traces its antecedents to earlier, small domestic ritual objects and ceramic figurines. The cessation of...

This volume considers the significance of stone monuments in Preclassic Mesoamerica, focusing on the period following the precocious appearance of monumental sculpture at the Olmec site of San Lorenzo and preceding the rise of the Classic polities in the Maya region and Central Mexico. By quite literally placing sculptures in their cultural, historical, social, political, religious, and cognitive contexts, the seventeen contributors utilize archaeological and art historical methods to understand the origins, growth, and spread of civilization in Middle America. They present abundant new data...

The arguments assembled in this book have ramifications not only for scholars working in Mesoamerica but anyone interested more generally in human representation and its significance. It is the first book to fully explore, for Mesoamerica, the relationship between human figuration, fragmentation, bodily divisibility, personhood, and community.